I haven't read this yet, but it will only be free on the NYT site for a short time, and I don't know that I'll get to it before they want to charge an arm and a leg to read it. You might want to save it to your hard drive. If the New York Times gets nasty, I'll take this down. ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- July 1, 2007 The Final Days By BENJAMIN ANASTAS Steven from Arizona — a caller on "Coast to Coast AM" late one night in February — had slipped into a future reality and caught a glimpse of the devastation that was coming when the supervolcano under Yellowstone erupted. James in Omaha, on the other hand, was worried about the likelihood of a magnetic pole shift, while Rod from Edmonton had recently spoken to a member of the Canadian Parliament about the global-warming crisis and couldn’t believe what he had heard. "We’re coming to an end time beyond anything that anybody has ever imagined," Rod said with a trembling urgency. "The scientists right now, they’re not even studying the real causes. The Kyoto treaty and CO2 have nothing to do with anything." "Coast to Coast AM" is an overnight radio show devoted to what its weekday host, George Noory, calls "the unusual mysteries of the world and the universe." Broadcast out of Sherman Oaks, Calif., and carried nationwide on more than 500 stations as well as the XM Radio satellite network, "Coast to Coast AM" is by far the highest-rated radio program in the country once the lights go out. The guest in the wee hours that February morning was Lawrence E. Joseph, the author of "Apocalypse 2012" — billed as "a scientific investigation into civilization’s end" — and he came on the air to tell the story of how the ancient Maya looked into the stars and predicted catastrophic changes to the earth, all pegged to the end date of an historical cycle on one of their calendars, Dec. 21, 2012. ( Read more... )Tags: 2012
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